isst
[ɪst]
The verdict
“isst” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,128) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,128
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
Corpus desk
Index DE-isst · isst · German
isst · rank #4,128 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,128
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Index
Nearest frequency peer: Index (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „isst“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gutem
gutem
95,876 corpus weight
- hinterlassen
hinterlassen
95,875 corpus weight
- Index
Index
95,874 corpus weight
- isst
isst
95,873 corpus weight
- Kasse
Kasse
95,872 corpus weight
- Kindergarten
Kindergarten
95,871 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „isst“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | isst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɪst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „isst“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for isst is neighbouring look-alikes ("IT", "ist", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ɪst]. Frequency #4,128 among 1,488 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for isst, with forms such as "isstt", "ißt", and "sist". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "IT", "ist", "its", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is isst, spelled I-S-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isstt
- ißt
- sist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of isst - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "isst", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).